Windscreen, Windscreen, Windscreen... YES YES YES!!

Hi Everyone

Well thank you for all the lovely comments and yes, I was extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. I had no idea the Oktoberfest was happening until I arrived. The same as in Avignon with the music festival, just lucky I guess.

Yesterday I started the new tour, as you know I was really worried about my room mate after the whisperer/hisser... Well guess what, not the bug this time, I am the windscreen. There are only 2 female passengers travelling alone, and the English lady must have paid the supplement, as I have a room of my own... Yes!!! How cool is that. But I would advise you to pay the supplement, if you are ever thinking of travelling alone, Remember Johanna is still out there and SHE DOES 3 TOURS A YEAR!!!! So be warned... I also managed to get a seat on my own on the bus...Bonus, bonus, bonus!! I am loving it so far.

Well we left Munich this morning and travelled to Nuremberg, we didn't get to see much of the place, just the centre square really. But it is a nice town. Lots of rebuilding after the war, as it was almost flattened. It is kind of bad of me, but I wasn't feeling all that sympathetic, not after seeing all the cities the Germans flattened of the countries that didn't start the bloody war.. So my bad, but I was like, "yeah well, if you hadn't started it"!! Not that I said anything, I just thought it. There were a lot of bullet holes or shrapnel marks on the buildings, I am not sure if they are from the war or from the 1968 uprising. But they are still there of a reminder of something. The buildings are amazing, I am not sure what I expected, but not the wonderful architecture that is here. All the buildings built in the Soviet time are horrible, boxes with no redeeming features at all, but the ones prior to that are amazing. I love looking at them.


This fountain is in the square in Nuremberg. There is a brass ring in the fence surrounding it. You are meant to turn the ring 3 times and make a wish, I did, but no idea if it works


There was a market in the square, I loved these little creatures, but unfortunately I cannot take them home ot Australia.. Otherwise I would have brought heaps of them. They were adorable

We then travelled to the Czech Republic, no border guards anymore, we just drove straight through. The country is beautiful, very like Bavaria so far. We stopped in Plzen, where Pilsener beer is made. It was also a nice town, I liked their square. I had lunch in a small take away restaurant, a bit like McDonald's only crapper... I got my chicken & chips and I took one look and thought "You know when you are in the Czech Republic, when the chips are burned and the chicken wings still have feathers on them." No kidding, one of the wings still had a feather coming out of it, with little fluffy bits and all, except it had been deep fried, so the fluffy bit was crispy...

The Czech Republic has twice been joined with Slovakia, once after the first world war and again after the Soviets took over in the 50's. The Czech's and Slovakians had no say either time. But in 1993 they once again seperated and are now two seperate countries. They refer to it as the Velvet Divorce, as both sides were agreeable to the seperation. See you can still learn something on this blog..


The square at Plzen, it had a market too... The buildings were amazing and many of them had bullet holes too.


This statue to the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus was erected by the population after the Black Plague, in gratitude for surviving and as a plea for the plague not to return. Legend has it that they buried some of the plague victims upside down, under the statue, but no written evidence can be found.... Really? Who in their right mind would write something like that down, weirdo's...

We then travelled to Prague, we arrived early this evening, so haven't seen much yet, but I do like what I have seen so far. A very pretty city.

I have a hotel room to myself and finally Internet access, the last hotel wanted 22 Euro's for it, yeah right. like that's going to happen.

So that is all for today. Talk to you again tomorrow hopefully

Cheers
Lones